Last week in The People we asked you to tell us your experiences of ghosts, ghoulies and little green men.

We were inundated with tales of things that go bump in the night and our picture desk was swamped with readers' photos of mysterious UFOs, aliens and the unexplained.

Clifford Batten, of Southampton, said he was left rubbing his eyes in disbelief after seeing a ghostly figure disappear through a wall.

Once he'd finally stopped shaking, he ran to tell workmates - who told him the spooky specter was a regular.

But when Jade Fawcett tried to convince her mum that she'd spotted a UFO hovering above their neighbour's house on New Year's Eve she laughed it off, saying she'd been at the bubbly.

However she changed her tune when she picked up the local newspaper and read how hundreds of other residents had reported seeing an identical flying saucer.

One of the strangest sightings has to of a grumpy goblin who knocked on a reader's front door. Here are some of your other close encounters of the weird kind...

A GOBLIN AT MY FRONT DOOR

Scarey: Fierce looking Goblin

After moving into their pretty 17th century cottage, STEVE ACWORTH and wife ANN often wondered who had lived in it before them.

But they could never have imagined they'd one day meet two of the previous occupants.

The couple moved into the house in Yalding, Kent, in 1978 and after months of DIY took a weekend break.

But when they returned they were greeted by a terrible smell.

Steve, 65, said: "We were immediately struck by the powerful stench of sewers drifting through the house.

But in the toilet, lying beside the bowl was something that can only be described as a wooden club."

Bemused, the couple kept it and told all their friends how it had mysteriously appeared after their trip.

Then one day, after hearing three loud knocks at the front door, Steve was left dumbfounded when he answered.

He said: "Standing there in broad daylight was a goblin. Exactly like in the traditional children's book illustrations."

Seconds later the creature vanished before his eyes and he soon realised the club had gone too.

A rather more spine-chilling incident happened when he woke up in the middle of the night to find a woman standing at the bottom of the bed.

Hoping it was his wife he reached across the bed, expecting it to be empty, but was horrified to find her lying beside him.

Steve, who now lives in Aeraeron, Wales, explained: "Frozen with fear, I forced myself to wake her but by the time she responded, the female figure had turned around and walked straight through the wall."

The next day his neighbour told how she had also seen the figure float through the wall into her bedroom.

Steve said: "She was also terrified out of her wits. By the time her husband woke up, the ghost was gone."

GHOST OF OUR DAD

Neil Penny had a bizarre encounter almost 35 years ago when he was a lad of 13.

Tucked up in bed in a room he shared with his older brother, he rolled over to see a strange figure standing over his brother's bed.

Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he did a double take and realised it was his father.

"I tapped him on the shoulder and my hand went straight through him," said Neil, now 48, of Birmingham.

"I felt afraid so pinched myself and I was definitely awake because it hurt.

"Dad looked at me, smiled, and went up to the back of the room and I watched him slowly fade away.

"The most interesting thing about the whole experience, was that my dad was still very much alive at the time."

PARTY IS CRASHED

Mystery: wind turbine in Lincolnshire

Just as the bells sounded to celebrate the New Year, teenager JADE FAWCETT and her pal spotted bright lights zooming towards them.

Red and yellow in colour they gradually got bigger as they approached.

"We watched astonished as it flew approximately 20meters off the ground. As it got above my neighbour's house the light shut off and there was a disk shape left hovering in the sky," recalls Jade, 16, of Forrest, Moray.

"I called to my mum to come out, I felt panicked and started breathing heavily... but she didn't believe me and never came out."

In the days that followed in 2009 UFOs hit the headlines - and aliens were even blamed for wrecking a wind turbine in Grainthorpe, Lincs.

CRAFT HOVERED OVER THE STREET

Amy Pugh says she was nearly blinded by the powerful lights of a large disc-shaped craft hovering above her neighbour's house .

The 22-year-old had just arrived home after a day out with her boyfriend in 2010.

"There were all these little lights around the side of it," recalled Amy, of Clapham, Beds. "I tried to take a picture with my phone but it vanished so quickly it hurt my eyes."

SUPER-SAUCER ZIPPED OVER US

Stargazer Fred Fullen and his wife watched in stunned silence as a flying saucer whizzed over Manchester at supersonic speed.

Fred explained: "I often see the flashing lights of planes crossing the skies, they take probably five minutes, this took 30 seconds."

He added: "It was just so exciting, I remember feeling at the time that we had witnessed something special."

CAUGHT ON FILM

Figure at the fort: Grainy picture seems to show a man at the rear of the cave

Ghostbuster Dave Sage is head of the Kent Paranormal Investigators and boasts of seeing a number of spine-chilling sights over the years.

The 53-year-old managed to snap this spooky picture of a woman, top, left known to locals as Margaret, during a tour of Fort Amherst in deepest Kent.

Dave explained: "We went around with the tour guide and he said it was this girl was called Margaret and she had a boyfriend, a soldier.

"This was during Napoleonic times and she got caught having an affair with another soldier.

"Her boyfriend killed both of them but little did he know she was already pregnant and if you look closely at the picture, you can see her holding a baby."

Another snap, main picture taken during another trip to the fort captures what looks like the shadowy figure of a man in th caves.

"That is a weird one," David admits. "We were just taking random pictures and if you look down his legs it looks like his knee caps are missing and then he has boots on.

"There was no one else down there when that was taken."

During another investigation with the paranormal group they went to a dilapidated building, formerly the Lissenden School in Hawkhurst, Kent.

A creepy figure, bottom left, can be seen peeking out from one of the windows.

Dave revealed: "When we were doing a séance in that room our medium said there were two kids standing in the corridor but they refused to come into the room.

"Apparently they just stood there, curious about what we were doing. I went outside and just started snapping away."

Referring to the picture, he explained: "It looks like a young girl to me. There is nothing on the window in the glass because it's up and that's a pole holding the window up."

I SAW TWO GREEN MEN IN JUMPSUITS

Night worker DARRYLL SEABOURNE has had TWO paranormal experiences while working in the early hours.

The first happened around 19 years ago at a factory in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, during a mystery power-cut.

The 66-year-old recalled: "There was a loud bang, it sounded like an engine had misfired, causing the lights to flicker and the machinery to cut out.

"The foreman and I rushed out to see what was happening. All we could see was the tail-end of a large vehicle with red and blue lights flashing.

It headed towards the sea, about a mile away from the factory."

A few years later he was working at another factory when his colleagues spotted another strange flying object. He ran after it and peered inside.

"When I relayed what I had seen to the lads they all started laughing because I saw two figures inside and they were green in appearance.

They looked about 6ft and were wearing what looked like a one-piece suit," he said.

IT'S FRIGHT NIGHT

Terrifying: Cleaner came face-to-face with a ghost

Clifford Batten said he nearly died of fright when he came face-to-face with a ghost.

The office cleaner was working at the old Ordnance Survey HQ in Southampton when he noticed a man in a smart suit still in the office.

But as he went to wish him a cheery goodnight, he vanished.

The 58-year-old said: "He looked like an ordinary member of staff. I was going to say goodnight but then he disappeared into the wall."

Other workers later revealed the spooky spirit is said to be the ghost of a worker who died in the building after collapsing with a heart attack.

SPOOKY SNAPS

Amateur snapper COLIN SULLIVAN went ghost hunting armed with just his camera.

He was on a tour of the Galleries of Justice Museum in Nottingham - once a Victorian courtroom , prison and scene of countless executions - when he started clicking away.

Colin, 35, of Stoke-on-Trent, said: "When I went back home and checked the camera I could make out what looked like two women sitting in the courtrooms.

They were dressed in Victorian clothing, wearing hats and looked like maids."

DAZZLED BY UFOs

Unidentified: Flying objects puzzle us

In 1983 TOM THOMPSON and his wife Liz ventured out on a cold winter's evening to walk their dog.

But as they approached an old disused mine at the back of their home coloured lights lit up the sky.

Tom, 66, recalled: "The lights appeared to be mingling with each other causing a rather beautiful and very bright line of colour."

Suddenly, the lights rose up and a flying object zoomed out of sight.

Tom, of Treeton, near Rotherham, scoured papers but has never solved the mystery. He added: "It was a rather exciting experience."

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